Man verbally abuses South Korean diners after ‘dirty Chinese kimchi’ argument
- A Chinese national insulted three men at a restaurant after they said they had been reluctant to eat kimchi after watching a video of the dish being made in China
- He was later arrested for displaying violent behaviour and placed under investigation
At a hotpot restaurant in the Sillim area of Gwanak district around 3pm, the Chinese man in his 50s, whose name is being withheld, heard a conversation from three men in their 70s sitting next to his table.
The Chinese man, who was intoxicated at the time, started shouting at them after they said they had been reluctant to eat kimchi after watching a video of the fermented cabbage dish being made in China.
The men were talking about a Weibo video from March that went viral in South Korea after being shared on YouTube and Korean news outlets under the title, “China’s obnoxious kimchi factory.”
The video shows a naked man waist deep in a pool of brownish liquid that was filled with cabbages and tossing the vegetables into the bucket of an excavator arm that was mixing the produce in the mysterious liquid.